Less than 10% of patients with Alzheimer's disease diagnosed in Hungary

Although awareness of Alzheimer's disease has increased in Hungary in recent years, only about 5-10% of the estimated 100 000 Hungarians with the disease are diagnosed and treated, a leading Hungarian neurologist said this week.

Dr Péter Tariska, a psychiatrist, neurologist, and gerontologist and head of the memory clinic at the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in …